{"id":60302,"date":"2016-09-15T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60302"},"modified":"2016-09-15T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T12:28:18","slug":"its-still-way-too-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60302","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Still Way Too High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trust in the mainstream media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/sep\/14\/gallup-poll-american-trust-in-news-media-falls-to-\/\">hits an all-time low<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A major pollster has some stark news: \u201cAmericans\u2019 trust and confidence in the mass media \u2018to report the news fully, accurately and fairly\u2019 has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year,\u201d writes Art Swift, an analyst for the Gallup poll, which first asked the nation to weigh in on the press in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the history of the entire trend, Americans\u2019 trust and confidence hit its highest point in 1976, at 72 percent, in the wake of widely lauded examples of investigative journalism regarding Vietnam and the Watergate scandal,\u201d Mr. Swift said.<\/p>\n<p>The sentiment has fallen slowly and steadily, and has consistently been below a majority level since 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>14% of Republicans still trust the media &#8211; which means I still have work to do. \u00a051% of Democrats trust the media &#8211; which is confirmation bias in action if I ever saw it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust in the mainstream media hits an all-time low: A major pollster has some stark news: \u201cAmericans\u2019 trust and confidence in the mass media \u2018to report the news fully, accurately and fairly\u2019 has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60303,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60302\/revisions\/60303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}